Bed & Breakfast Mysteries
Guests Check in...but Don't Always Check Out
Guests Check in...but Don't Always Check Out
The Hillside Manor AUTHOR: Mary Daheim
Widowed Judith Grover
McMonigle has turned her home into a B&B on Heraldsgate Hill. As yet, the
establishment has not made its mark, but, if nothing else, running up and down
four flights of stairs on a daily basis will help Judith's battle against the
bulge. Nothing, however, can help her deal with her ornery, absentminded mother
and, sometimes exasperating guests. She certainly never intends to get into
the sleuthing business, but when a guest is murdered she figures that it is
bad for business. The murder brings Det. Joe Flynn back into her life-he dumped
her 25 years earlier.
Just Desserts
(Avon, 1991) Tess Darcy, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Jean Hager
An inheritance enables
Tess Darcy of Victoria Springs, Minnesota, to turn her Aunt Iris's Victorian-style
house and gardens into a charming (and upscale) B&B she names Iris House.
She has also inherited a haughty gray Persian cat named Primrose who hasn't
quite accepted her as mistress of the house. On the brighter side, now that
her renovations are completed, Tess has time to turn her attentions to handsome,
Luke Fredrik (he looks like a young Viking in a business suit), chairman of
the Board of the Chamber of Commerce. If only people would stop dying at Iris
House her life would be so simple!
Blooming Murder Avon,
1994. The Hemlock Falls Inn Sarah Quilliam, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Claudia Bishop
With her talent for business,
ex-artist Sarah Quilliam-known to one and all as "Quill"-runs the 27-room Hemlock
Falls Inn in Hemlock Falls, NY, while her widowed sister, Meg, keeps the guests
happy with her culinary abilities. Quill certainly has her hands full with eccentric,
demanding guests, a town of colorful characters who can't seem to mind their
own business, and the annoying habit her guests have of kicking the bucket at
the most inopportune moments.
A Taste for Murder (Berkley
Prime Crime, 1994)
Judith Grover McMonigle, Proprietor
Fowl Prey (Avon, 1991)
Holy Terrors (Avon, 1992)
Dune to Death (Avon, 1993)
Bantam of the Opera (Avon, 1993)
A Fit of Tempera (Avon, 1994)
Major Vices (Avon, 1995)
Murder My Suite (Avon, 1995)
Auntie Mayhem (Avon, 1996)
Nutty as a Fruitcake (Avon, 1996)
September Mourn (Avon, 1997)
Wed and Buried (Avon, 1998)
Snow Place to Die (Avon, 1998)
Legs Benedict (Avon, 1999)
Creeps Suzette (Avon, 2000)
A Streetcar Named Expire (Avon, 2001)
Suture Self (Morrow, 2001)
Silver Scream (Morrow, 2002)
Hocus Croakus (Morrow, 2003)
This Old Souse (Morrow, 2004)
Dead Man Docking (Morrow, 2005)
Saks & Violins (Morrow, 2006)
Scots on the Rocks (Morrow, 2007)
Vi Agra Falls (Morrow, 2008)
Loco Motive (Morrow, 2010)
All the Pretty Horses (Morrow, 2011)
Iris House
Dead & Buried (1995)
Death on a Drunkards Path (1996)
The Last Noel (1997)
Sew Deadly (1998)
Weigh Dead (1999)
Bride and Doom (2000)
A Dash of Death (BPC, 1995)
A Pinch of Poison (BPC, 1995)
Murder Well-Done (BPC, 1996)
Death Dines Out (BPC, 1997)
A Touch of the Grape (BPC, 1998)
A Steak in Murder (BPC, 1999)
Marinade for Murder (BPC, 2000)
Just Desserts (BPC, 2002)
Fried by Jury (BPC, 2003)
A Puree of Poison (BPC, 2003)
Buried by Breakfast (BPC, 2004)
A Dinner to Die For (BPC, 2006)
A Carol for a Corpse (BPC, 2006)
Scots on the Rocks (BPC, 2007)
The Manor House
Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Kate Kingsbury
In World War II England,
the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved
ones. But independent Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, the last member of her impoverished
but noble family, who owns the Manor House and subsists on the rents she receives
from her tenants, stubbornly insists that life must go on. The villagers depend
on Elizabeth to make sure things go smoothly. Which means everything from sorting
out gossip to solving the occasional murder.
The Pennyfoot Hotel
Cecily Sinclair, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Kate Kingsbury
England, 1906. The Pennyfoot is a luxury seaside hotel in Badger's End that caters to the snobbish upper-crust. Its proprietress is Cecily Sinclair. The only girl in a family of six, her brothers instilled in her an inquisitive mind and a zest for adventure. And since murder is decidedly bad for business, Cecily is only too willing to help out the local constable, aided by Baxter, her faithful but oh-so-stuffy manager.
Room with a Clue (Jove, 1993)
The PennDutch Inn
Magdalena Yoder, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Tamar Myers
After her parents-Mennonite farmers--were killed in an accident, Magdalena Yoder converted the family dairy farm in Hernia, PA, into the PennDutch Inn. A savvy businesswoman, she has her well-heeled guests clean their own rooms and even help out in the common areas, convincing them that it is part of the Mennonite culture. Helping her run the place are her kinsmen, Mose and Freni Hostetler, who are Amish, and her sister, Susannah, divorced from the Presbyterian she had run off with.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the
Broth (Signet, 1994)
Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Crime (Doubleday, 1995)
No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk (Dutton, 1996)
Just Plain Pickled to Death (Signet, 1997)
Between a Wok and a Hard Place (Signet, 998)
Eat Drink and Be Wary (Signet, 1998)
Play It Again, Spam (Signet, 1999)
Hand that Rocks the Ladle (Signet, 2000)
The Crepes of Wrath (NAL, 2001)
Gruel and Unusual Punishment. (NAL, 2002)
Custard's Last Stand (Signet, 2003)
Thou Shall Not Grill (NAL, 2004)
Assault and Pepper (NAL, 2005)
Grape Expectations (NAL, 2006)
Hell Hath No Curry (NAL, 2007)
As the World Churns (Obsidian, 2008)
Batter Off Dead (Obsidian, 2009)
Butter Safe than Sorry (NAL, 2010)
Blue Skies Bed & Breakfast
Stanley Waters, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Willard Scott, with Bill Crider
Balding widower Stanley Waters gave up his job as a TV weatherman to move back to his small Virginia hometown of Higgins where he has fulfilled his life-long dream of running a bed-and-breakfast. He still carries a torch for his high school sweetheart, Police Chief Marilyn Tunney, and when a guest drops dead at his opening-night party, they are reunited as crime-solvers.
Murder Under Blue Skies (Dutton, 1998)
Murder in the Mist (Dutton, 1999)
Cozy (Dutton, 2001)
Lighthouse Inn
Alex Winston, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Tim Myers
Alex Winston runs the cozy West Hatteras Inn and Lighthouse, which he inherited from his father. But this lighthouse is nowhere near the coast; it is located in the small town of Elkton, NC in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Alex is a likeable and accomodating host even when dealing with demanding guests, financial difficulties, the women in his life...and the occasional dead body that pops up on his property.
Innkeeping With Murder
(BPC, 2001)
Reservations for Murder (BPC, 2002)
Room for Murder (BPC, 2003)
Murder Checks Inn (BPC, 2003)
Booked for Murder (BPC, 2004)
The Gray Whale Inn
Natalie Barnes, Proprietor
AUTHOR: Karen MacInerney
Texan Natalie Barnes has put everything she owns into running the Gray Whale Inn, a B&B located on Cranberry Island, off the coast of Maine. She loves her new, simpler life and loves cooking for her guests. And she probably wouldn't kick deputy John Quinton out of bed for eating cookies, either.
Murder on the Rocks
(Midnight Ink, 2006)
Dead and Berried (Midnight Ink, 2007)
Hell Hath No Fury (Midnight Ink, 2008)
Murder Most Maine (Midnight Ink, 2008)
Berried to the Hilt (Midnight Ink, 2010)
The Haunted Guesthouse
Alison Kirby, Proprietor
AUTHOR: E. J. Copperman
After renovating a fixer-upper and turning it into a profitable guesthose on the Jersey Shore, Alison Kirby finds herself dealing with more than just the ordinary clientele. She soon befriends the resident ghosts who then assist her in investigating nefarious goings-on at the inn.
Night of the Living Dead (BPC, 2010)
An Uninvited Ghost (BPC, 2011)
SHORT STORIES
Death Dines at 8:30,edited by Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario.
Berkley Prime Crime, 2001.
Death Dines In, edited by Caludia Bishop & Dean James.
Berkley, 2004.
Murder
by Reservation by Linda Bova
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